His prescription is not fewer meetings. It’s BETTER meetings. He suggests:

• Meetings need a “hook” in the first few minutes. Consider jolting participants to attention by starting out with a problem to solve.
• There may be conflict at a meeting. That’s OK. The goal shouldn’t be to avoid conflict — but to deal with it and solve it.
• Schedule the right kind of meeting to suit your needs. It might be a quick check-in (which helps team members avoid confusion), the weekly tactical meeting (focused on progress updates and ensuring team members are in sync), the monthly strategic meeting (where leaders dive into a topics without any distractions) and the quarterly review.